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“... texts, and over the centuries an assembly of angels has been singing the Psalms in its own way: Wyatt, Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan, Smart, Clare, Hopkins and Kipling among them. Some were setting lyrics to new tunes; some were performing metrical exercises with familiar material; some were expressing private ...”

“... archaic enough. But this famous great work has always daunted me. Chambers gave 30 poems from Wyatt, Jones prints 28 plus one attribution, and they have 12 poems in common, including ‘They flee from me’, ‘And wilt thou leave me thus?’ and ‘Mine own John Poyntz’. Where they differ in choice, it might be ventured that Jones’s, though still ...”

“... It was strong enough to bring Labour to power in 1945, the spirit of equality moving even Woodrow Wyatt (then writing, like me, for Tribune) to say that all inheritances should be limited to £20,000. Yet within a few years the impulse faded, and only the concomitants of rationing and bureaucracy remained. Orwell’s remark that there was no way in which one ...”

“... down outside, listening to Scarlatti, Dowland, Byrd, or you reading aloud to us, Wordsworth, Wyatt – just back there across the road, torn down, a gruesome condo complex now. You poured those sounds into our heads. Who knew what might come of it? Surely, nothing bad. I would walk past you many times that year, sitting here, gazing out at the sea, the ...”

“... have my hand up. I want to know when Gunn first came across certain poems, elegies by Sir Thomas Wyatt for friends who were executed, that weren’t published until the early Sixties. They seem close in so many ways to the poems in the last section of The Man with Night Sweats. He referred to these poems in a book review. He obviously knows them well. Their ...”

“... in Jesus Lane, Cambridge. Behind an impressively classical façade, designed by Matthew Digby Wyatt, was a labyrinth of hot and cold rooms, and swimming pools, vaguely reflecting the layout and practice of an ancient Roman bath. Local worthies had invested considerable sums of money in the venture, in return for free entry. Others were to be admitted for ...”

“... By the ninth chapter, after some startling developments, ‘The Mother’ and her author Edith Wyatt seem to combine in a prosaic invocation of clarity: ‘I am most grateful to the fortune sending me this lucid interval, not only for thinking over what has occurred in the last three days, but also for trying to focus clearly for myself what has happened ...”

“... who was employed at White’s Club, showed some of his 14-year-old son’s drawings to James Wyatt, who took him into his office. A little later he entered the Academy School and, in 1794, supported by John Martindale, the proprietor of White’s, went to Italy. There he travelled widely, studied ancient monuments, sketched landscapes and won a medal for ...”

“... just the abyss of the familiar.’ Kenneth Clark, who grew up at Sudbourne Hall, a now demolished Wyatt house near Orford, said that what made the Dark Ages so dark was ‘the isolation, the lack of mobility, the lack of curiosity, the hopelessness’. The way some of its admirers talk about Suffolk, you wonder whether it ever emerged from the Dark ...”

“... of its running jokes is that the king writes bad poetry. He says: ‘There are some who say that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the king.’ While courting Jane he struggles to revise old verses to make them suit his new mistress, and asks Cromwell for advice on rhymes for the word ‘blue’, apart from ‘new’. And like a grim chorus ...”

“... much Protestant appraisal was muted and cautious: ‘a very wilful woman,’ according to George Wyatt, full of ‘devilish devices’; her life was ‘shameful to rehearse’, William Thomas said, defending the reputation of his recently deceased sovereign Henry VIII to an Italian audience. The story of Anne Boleyn is one which serious historians have tried ...”

“... Tom and Ranse in Liberty Valance, Dunson and Matt in Red River, York and Thursday in Fort Apache, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in My Darling Clementine. The last of these may be Ford’s sunniest Western, made in 1946, right after the war that led the United States out of the Depression and into world ascendancy. Wyatt Earp ...”

“... presumably an accident of distribution. That the two works, James Marsh’s Project Nim and Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, should resemble each other so closely begins to look like a message or a clue, a movieworld sign that we actually are rethinking our relation to other animals. You’ll see how eerie this notion is when I say that ...”

“... the place the faces are those of horses.And then there is the music, by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, which goes way beyond the praise of pink. There are major ballets, for women at the start, for men at the end, and it is wonderful to see a war zone – men induced by women to fight with other men – turn into West Side Story. Gerwig herself says she was ...”

“... anthologies of English poetry knows that the modern tradition – beginning with Chaucer and Wyatt, and resubscribed by Pound and Eliot – was forged almost entirely from translation of one sort or another; nearly every form we have is a borrowed form. One may or may not know that Milton translated his poems into Latin and back again, or that the first ...”